Advances in Bioinformatics
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 598241, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/598241
Resource Review

The FAST-AIMS Clinical Mass Spectrometry Analysis System

Nafeh Fananapazir,1,2 Alexander Statnikov,1,3 and Constantin F. Aliferis1,3

1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
2Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
3Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University, NY 10016, USA

Received 16 January 2009; Accepted 11 May 2009

Academic Editor: Zoran Obradovic

Copyright © 2009 Nafeh Fananapazir et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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